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Originally Posted by sanford12
For that kind of money I would hope it is recapped. German radios are a major PITA to work on and the tubes are expensive. They sound great but there are American radios that sound as good. I had a Curtis Mathes big table top radio that I swore was German made because it sound so good. Nope. Just good old American tubes and a chassis that made sense.
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Yup. Like 1940s-'60s Zeniths. I have a C845 and a K731; both sound so good, IMHO, that they could well hold their own against any German table model. I can't help thinking that Zenith's design engineers may have taken at least some of their cues from Grundig, et al. when those wonderful Zenith radios were made; for example, the feedback winding on the audio output transformer, the true tone control that varied the entire response curve of the audio stages rather than simply cut the high frequencies, and so on.